The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 65
“It certainly smells of fish,” he said, and then he stopped, for a sudden thought had come to him.
Who acts: basket, matter, sudden thought · What happens: smell, say, stop, come · To what, where: matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (basket, matter, sudden thought), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 smells | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 smells | nsubj |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 smells | advmod |
| 4 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fish | case |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smells | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 smells | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 smells | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stopped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stopped | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 stopped | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stopped | nsubj |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 come | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 thought | det |
| 19 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thought | amod |
| 20 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 stopped | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 come | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell in a quote | present | basket | of fish; certainly property | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | matter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stop | past | matter | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | a sudden thought | matter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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